The panel will take all election-related decisions of the party ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, which are due early next year.
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- The Congress appointed the party’s Punjab unit chief Sidhu as the chairman of the state election committee.
- All MPs from Punjab in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are also members of the panel.
- The panel will take all the election related decisions of the party before the Punjab Assembly elections.
The Congress on Monday appointed the party’s Punjab unit chief Navjot Sidhu as the chairman of the state election committee.
The all-important Punjab Pradesh Election Committee members include Chief Minister and CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi, Ambika Soni, chairman of the coordination committee, Sunil Jakhar, chairman of the campaign committee and Pratap Singh Bajwa, chairman of the manifesto committee.
An official statement from the party said, “The Congress President has approved with immediate effect the proposal to constitute the State Election Committee of Punjab Congress, which will be headed by PCC Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.”
All the MPs of Punjab, both in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, are members of the panel besides all the ministers of the Government of Punjab.
Former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and former PPCC chiefs HS Hanspal and Mohinder Singh Kapi have also been included as members of the panel.
The panel members include AICC secretaries KL Sharma and Raminder Singh Amla, Punjab Congress senior vice president Lal Singh and PPCC working presidents Kuljit Nagra, Sukhwinder Danny and Pawan Goel.
Former ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu, Shyam Sunder Arora, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and PPCC vice president Gurpreet Kangar and MLAs Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Navtej Singh Cheema have also been made members of the panel.
The committee includes SC department president Rajkumar Chabiwal, Punjab Mahila Congress president Balbir Rani Sodhi, Punjab Youth Congress chief Barinder Dhillon and NSUI’s Punjab unit chief Akshay Sharma, besides Punjab Seva Dal’s chief organizers Nirmal Khaira and Hamid Masih. has been included in the committee. ,
The panel will take all election-related decisions of the party ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, which are due early next year.
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